Whoever has rid his nature of vain desire has (thereby) made his (spiritual) eye familiar with the secret.

هر که خود را از هوا خود باز کرد ** چشم خود را آشنای راز کرد

How a cadi complained of the calamity of (holding) the office of cadi, and how his deputy answered him.

شکایت قاضی از آفت قضا و جواب گفتن نایب او را

They installed a cadi, (and meanwhile) he wept. The deputy said, ‘O cadi, what are you weeping for?

قاضیی بنشاندند او می‏گریست ** گفت نایب قاضیا گریه ز چیست‏

This is not the time for you to weep and lament: it is the time for you to rejoice and receive felicitations.’2745

این نه وقت گریه و فریاد تست ** وقت شادی و مبارک باد تست‏

‘Ah,’ said he, ‘how shall a man without insight pronounce judgement—an ignorant man (decide) between two who know?

گفت اه چون حکم راند بی‏دلی ** در میان آن دو عالم جاهلی‏

Those two adversaries are acquainted with their own case: what should the poor cadi know of those two tangles?

آن دو خصم از واقعه‏ی خود واقفند ** قاضی مسکین چه داند ز آن دو بند

He is ignorant and unaware of their (real) state: how should he proceed (to give judgment) concerning their lives and property?’

جاهل است و غافل است از حالشان ** چون رود در خونشان و مالشان‏

He (the deputy) said, ‘The litigants know (the truth of their case) and (nevertheless) are unsound (prejudiced); you are ignorant (of the facts), but you are the luminary of the whole body (of Moslems),

گفت خصمان عالمند و علتی ** جاهلی تو لیک شمع ملتی‏

Because you have no prejudice to interfere (with your discernment), and that freedom (from prejudice) is light to the eyes;2750

ز انکه تو علت نداری در میان ** آن فراغت هست نور دیده‏گان‏

While those two who know are blinded by their self-interest: prejudice has put their knowledge into the grave.